Micah 2:1-5

Social Evils Denounced

2Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds* on their beds!When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
2 They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away;they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.
3 Therefore, thus says the Lord:Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks;and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
4 On that day they shall take up a taunt-song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation,and say, We are utterly ruined; the Lord* alters the inheritance of my people;how he removes it from me! Among our captors* he parcels out our fields.
5 Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.